moving gitolite server

old server

# backup repositories somehow.
user$ tar czvf repo.tgz /path/to/gitolite/repositories/

new server

user$ sudo yum install gitolite
user$ rpm -qa | grep gitolite
gitolite-2.3.1-1.el5

user$ sudo su -l gitolite


# initialize gitolite with dummy pub key
gitolite$ ssh-keygen -q -N '' -f dummy
gitolite$ gl-setup dummy.pub
creating gitolite-admin...
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/gitolite-admin.git/
creating testing...
Initialized empty Git repository in /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/testing.git/
[master (root-commit) a523b5b] gl-setup dummy.pub
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 conf/gitolite.conf
 create mode 100644 keydir/dummy.pub


# change it same as old server if you neeed
gitolite$ vim .gitolite.rc


# swap repositories directory with backup
gitolite$ rm -rf ./repositories

gitolite$ cd /path/to/backup/
gitolite$ tar xzvf repo.tgz
gitolite$ mv repositories /var/lig/gitolite/


# overwrite repository by empty commiting
gitolite$ cd /tmp
gitolite$ git clone /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/gitolite-admin.git
Cloning into gitolite-admin...
done.

gitolite$ cd gitolite-admin
gitolite$ git commit --allow-empty -m 'move gitolite server'
[master 1656534] move gitolite server

gitolite$ gl-admin-push -f
Counting objects: 1, done.
Unpacking objects: 100% (1/1), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 190 bytes, done.
Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To /var/lib/gitolite/repositories/gitolite-admin.git
   d36c1e8..1656534  master -> master

gitolite$ exit


# confirm
user$ git clone ssh://gitolite@localhost/gitolite-admin
Cloning into gitolite-admin...
remote: Counting objects: 62, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (54/54), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (62/62), 8.95 KiB, done.
remote: Total 62 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0)
Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), done.

done! :)

Thanks

http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/rare.html#existing

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9835235/moving-gitolite-server